What ₳ means
It marked amounts in Argentina's austral currency. Argentina introduced the austral in 1985, with one austral replacing 1,000 pesos argentinos. The crossed A identified that currency on banknotes, coins, financial records, and prices.
In 1992, Argentina returned to the peso; ₳ then became a historical marker for the austral, not a sign for that peso. In old price lists and records of coins or banknotes, it identifies amounts in australes.
Use ₳ for historical references to Argentina's austral.
It does not mark the Argentine peso.
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ₳ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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Collections with ₳
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How to type or find ₳
- Search it as
- austral · australes · Argentine austral · Argentine austral currency · austral symbol · crossed A · A with bar · old Argentine currency
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
₳\20B3Codes and encoding1 code points
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